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Nebraska Trooper Finds Victim Hours After Crash

state-patrol-logoPLATTSMOUTH, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska state trooper has found a woman who’d spent hours in the wreckage of her vehicle after it crashed off a highway south of Omaha.

51-year-old Laura Hazen thinks her sport utility vehicle crashed around 8 p.m. Wednesday. The SUV ran down into a ditch off the west side of U.S. Highway 75 about three miles south of Plattsmouth and rolled onto its top. The wreckage was all but invisible to motorists whizzing past.

Trooper Eric Aho (AH-‘hoh) noticed scattered dirt and damaged trees, though, as he passed by around 8 a.m. Thursday. He stopped and soon found Hazen in the back seat of her SUV, trying to keep warm and complaining of rib injuries.

Hazen was taken to a hospital.

 

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